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Saturday November 9th

Opening session with Grace BubeckHealing and Awakening: What is this retreat all about?11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, 7pm UK, 8pm Europe If awakening means giving up the search for anything other than what is lived in the moment, can there still be a need for healing? How do our spiritual and healing journeys intertwine? After a short introduction and meditation, the virtual floor will be open for questions and sharing.

Scott KilobyThe Living Inquiries: Healing and Awakening at the same time 1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern, 9pm UK, 10pm EuropeScott has developed "the Living Inquiries" a new way to look at the belief in self and separation (as well as addiction, anxiety and depression) using a simple, direct looking. Because of the effectiveness of the inquiries, Scott has completely abandoned the old way that he used to speak of enlightenment. Come and get a taste of the inquiries with this talk by Scott.

Gina LakeWhy Healing Matters to Awakening3pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern, 10pm UK, 11pm EuropeHealing is important to awakening because a positive or neutral mind makes being present in the moment easier and more likely. The more mental negativity we have, the harder it is to detach from our egoic mind, which is the cause of suffering and the primary stumbling block to awakening. Negative thoughts are very compelling. We tend to feel that we have to be involved with our negative thoughts and come up with solutions to the problems and feelings that our negative thoughts create. Negative thoughts keep us in the grasp of the ego. Healing the issues behind our negative thoughts and inquiring into our negative thoughts frees us to live life in a different way—to be present to real life rather than to the virtual reality created by our mind.

Saturday November 9th

Meditation and Sharing7am Pacific, 10am Eastern, 3pm UK, 4pm EuropeIn the mediation and sharing sessions, we'll be coming together as a virtual community to meditate together and to share our experience.

John Prendergast Healing, Awakening, and the Felt Sense of Truth9am Pacific, 12 noon Eastern, 5pm UK, 6pm EuropeOur bodies have a felt sense of the truth, either relative or absolute. There are several subtle somatic qualities or markers that let us know that we are on the right track to our deepest truth: a core relaxation, groundedness, inner aliveness and alignment, open heartedness, and spacious clarity. Effective psychotherapy and somatic approaches can significantly lighten psychological conditioning, supporting the process of awakening. A deep spiritual awakening further catalyzes the psychological deconditioning process that leads to a deeper embodiment of essential understanding. Whether we are interested in healing or awakening, the wisdom of the body is a critical resource to access.

DellaHealing: a direct journey towards the unlimited freedom of the Heart11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, 7pm UK, 8pm EuropeThe Heart of Being loves. It loves unconditionally. It sees only perfection in everything and everyone. The challenge as a human being is to surrender to this free and healing Love flowing from within. It is when we take the risk of letting go of control and face with true compassion the fear that arises, that we open ourselves to the infinite beauty and perfection of Being. In that moment, we can realize that we are free to be ourselves and incarnate our own inner Truth with Joy. With this deep realization, everything becomes possible and at the same time, nothing seems necessary anymore.

UnmaniRecognising who you really are is the greatest healing1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern, 9pm UK, 10pm EuropeWhile you believe that who you are is your limited and located story of 'me', any healing will only be limited. In recognising that your true nature is truly unlimited and already everything that you have been longing for or trying to become, there is a great relaxation and acceptance of all the so-called 'broken' or 'un-healed' aspects. This recognition provides the only safety to really dive into all the most frightening and painful old beliefs and wounds. Knowing that whatever is here, is only appearing in you, and never means anything about you, is the freedom to feel it all, and for it to be seen to be so welcome that it is no longer a problem.

Meditation and Sharing3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern, 11pm UK, 12am midnight EuropeIn the mediation and sharing sessions, we'll be coming together as a virtual community to meditate together and to share our experience.

Sunday November 10th

Meditation and Sharing7am Pacific, 10am Eastern, 3pm UK, 4pm EuropeIn the mediation and sharing sessions, we'll be coming together as a virtual community to meditate together and to share our experience.

Marlies Cocheret How does Stillness Heal? 9am Pacific, 12 noon Eastern, 5pm UK, 6pm EuropeIsn’t it magical to be in a body? We can have all kinds of experiences in our body’s world. Being nourished by the Silence of our Being or feeling sick or happy. When we enter into our inner sanctuary, and find ourselves alone with the Silence of our Being and listen…. miracles can happen. When Silence is experienced as the Beloved. It will take seat in the body into the senses as sweet aliveness-vibration-nectar. It is your relationship with love itself that will be reflected in your body. Come and join this interview and deepen the taste of stillness in your body. First we wake up out of existence and then into existence into our bodies and come to wholeness/healing.

Padma WolffSatsang or Psychotherapy: What's really needed?11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, 7pm UK, 8pm EuropeSatsang is a very direct way of discovering in our own experience what is already complete and whole: it’s about stopping everything to discover what is already here. This stopping can mean letting go of any notion of still needing to fix or heal anything, including any form of therapy. From the discovery of our wholeness, enormous healing potential can flow back to whatever mental, emotional or physical issues are there in our lives. But it can also become a trap, leading us to deny attention to what may still need healing. So satsang and psychotherapy may both have their time and value.

NirmalaThe Deepest Healing is Realizing that Nothing Here Needs to be Healed1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern, 9pm UK, 10pm EuropeWhen we are dealing with an illness or injury we can tend to swing between striving and struggling to find a solution and hopelessness or despair over feeling stuck with the problem. But there is a third possibility which is to recognize that ultimately there is no problem with illness or limitation. In this very moment, there are just particular sensations and experiences which are not really a problem. And on an even deeper level, what we are is spacious awareness which cannot be harmed or damaged. So in the truest sense we are always already healed and healthy. And paradoxically, seeing this allows a surrender to and intimacy with our experience that will sometimes allow a practical solution or more relative healing to emerge. The deepest healing occurs most easily and naturally when we realize that we are already fine just as we are.